Should 50mg Vyvanse Capsules Be Full Or Half
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Some of my capsules are filled all the way some are filled just a little and some are just half of the way which is the proper amount?

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2024 & I just opened & measured a 40mg pill which had 80mg in it! Then opened a 20mg pill & it had 30mg in it! No wonder why I thought I was dying of a heart attack!!

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Re: Lucielou (# 17)

So, when the nub is exactly 2mm in the bottom of the white side of the pill and I crush it and it barely fills half, it is the same amount of med and we are all having a placebo effect? I think not. To many people experiencing the same thing and that is called a pattern especially when they feel like they took nothing at all. And the weights are different also. Yes everybody is freaking out and righteously so, there meds are bunk.

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Sometimes the actually powder in the pill is condensed or packed tightly. If you try to squeeze the pill and it feels rock hard just kisses up the powder and you’ll see it is full. It’s the same milligram it’s just that sometimes the powder is very condensed and you have to loosen it in order to fill the capsule to the top. But if you are finding any that are less then half, it was def tampered with

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Re: Dylan (# 30)

Please define this powder that they are shoving into these pills. Does it make your pill press happier? I trust people not idiot programmers.

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Re: Smartypants (# 27)

Oh yeah my mother uses diet pills should I call the DARE program? We need DEA enforcement on these issues. please go away.

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Re: Smartypants (# 27)

I've seen them dump buckets of some medication into the presses. I would trust the machine.

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Re: Kel (# 15)

these 50mg look like and act like a ton of restoril. calling this stuff amphetamine is a joke.

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Re: Kel (# 15)

if you can figure this out I would love to hear your opinion on this subject.

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Re: Lucielou (# 20)

So if I drink a glass of wine it may or may not be consistent with the labeling? FDA is a crime syndicate.

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are you sick! Using the work spoon and saying that small amounts of powder do not make a difference! This stuff better look like rods under my microscope. Adding bitartrate does not work! I want dex spansules. The spansules used to have a white line on the capsule so you know if the pill was tampered.

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I am no longer welcomed in most pharmacies any more. I would (and have, and will continue) to require them to break out their scale. Last time they broke out with a balance and their response was "we have never seen those pills before"!

Like who put the drugs in the bottle? You are not alone.

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Re: Lucielou (# 20)

Actually I found that my 50mg caps varied about 1 to 4 tenths. .13 to . 17

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All you guys trippin any vyvanse dosage is supposed to be filled to the top the whole pill is supposed to be filled with powder if not then it’s been tampered with or they packed it wrong

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Re: Miss ADD (# 9)

I would try using GoodRx or another pharmacy coupon card to lower the price. This took about 80% off of my total.

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Re: Kel (# 15)

Read the earlier comments. Lawsuit is the only way. Shire is ripping us off on purpose.

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I have had the same issue but I personally don't think you can blame shire because pills are infused with the powder by machine. Each machine is specifically programmed. So basically all I'm saying is that it's likely not the company and more likely to either be condensed due to too much shelf life or someone in your life may be stealing some.

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Sometimes its like that depending on provider. I wouldnt worry about it. I just took my 60mg vyvanse and they are 3/4 full.

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Re: CarolynHR (# 24)

I would start opening them all right in front of the pharmacist so they know nothing was tampered with by you. For some to have nothing in it is NOT ok. Even if u bring it up to the pharmacist they should be able to watch the camera’s to see if, when and by who this is happening. But your right they will probably think you are trying to pull a fast one on them with out even giving it a 2nd thought unless u open them there in front of the actual pharmacist as a witness.

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Hi everyone, I've taken Vyvance for 1 1/2 years but the last 6 months was the first time I decided I did better taking 1/2 of the contents of the capsule in the morning and one if the early afternoon. Typically they have been very full and I have to be careful when taking the capsule a part to not spill the contents. The last few prescriptions have had a lot of descrepency in fullness, with this current Rx having some capsules with nothing in it at all, and about 3-4 with barely anything. I debated about telling my CVS pharmacist about it because it would sound like I had emptied the contents myself and then told him they were empty! But being that I have gone to this pharmacy location for 17 years and I had never questioned medication before I decided to try. The pharmacist gave me some run around answer, basically saying I would have to take it up with Shire. This was disturbing as the pharmacy should 'stand behind' the products they dispense, at least doing a quality control while counting out the capsules. They could shine a light behind the capsules to see that they are giving their customers half empty capsules. Not sure of my next step but I may try using the "I am the grand-niece of" the former head of Johnson and Johnson. Maybe that will get Shire's attention. I will keep you posted.

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Re: Lucielou (# 19)

Lol, I agree that a pharmacist tampering with meds would not be so ignorant not to make it look as it did before tampering. It’s not hard to fill something containing a white powder with another white powder. Nor would it be hard to turn the capsule back to its original alignment; even the pharmacy techs could figure that out!! S*** even a “powder skimming drug dealer” would know to do that! I know most pharmacies have cameras now so if this was happening consistently the drug company/pharmacist could look into the tapes to see if they were in fact tampered with on their watch!! If you buy a box of sugar it will say even if the product is not as full as your previous the product is weighed precisely for the correct measurement. They don’t eyeball anything stamp a oz/lb label on it and hope they are right.

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